If you never installed version 7.7.3 before, there are no additional steps required on your end. If you update Visual Studio for Mac now, we will directly download and install the version 7.7.4 update. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find a good workaround for those who installed the version 7.7.3 update that does not require any manual steps on your end, and are still continuing to investigate better options. We have described a manual workaround in the release notes, that I am also copying below. Once you apply those steps, you should be able to get further updates to Visual Studio for Mac. Please note that you will directly get version 7.7.4 when you apply the workaround, so checking for further updates will not show anything new until we publish our next major update (version 7.8) in the near future.

Once again, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at unnir@microsoft.com if you need help with any of the steps below.

Best regards,

Unni

Release notes for 7.7.4.1:

This release fixes an issue where some users are seeing an “Error retrieving error information” message in the Visual Studio for Mac updater after updating to version 7.7.3.

After installing Visual Studio for Mac version 7.7.3, if you notice the “Error retrieving error information” message in the updater, please follow these steps:

After downloading, double-click the DMG and follow the instructions to install the product to Applications by dragging and dropping the Visual Studio for Mac logo into the Applications folder in the installer UI.

Relaunch Visual Studio for Mac and bring up the Updater UI. The error message should now be gone, and you will be able to see updates to Visual Studio for Mac as they are made available in the future.